Strong's #4591: ma`at (pronounced maw-at')

a primitive root; properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective):--suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, X borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, (X give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâ‛aṭ

1) to be or become small, be few, be diminished

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to diminish

1a2) to be too small

1b) (Piel) to become few

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to make small, make few, diminish

1c2) to give less

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Exodus 12:4: "And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him"
Exodus 16:17: "so, and gathered, some more, some less."
Exodus 16:18: "it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered"
Exodus 30:15: "give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give"
Leviticus 25:16: "thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for"
Leviticus 25:16: "thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits"
Leviticus 26:22: "among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate."
Numbers 11:32: "and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad"
Numbers 26:54: "thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given"
Numbers 33:54: "inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where"
Numbers 35:8: "from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one"
2 Kings 4:3: "of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few."
Nehemiah 9:32: "all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings,"
Psalms 107:38: "greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease."
Psalms 107:39: " Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow."
Proverbs 13:11: "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase."
Ecclesiastes 12:3: "shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,"
Isaiah 21:17: "the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel"
Jeremiah 10:24: "not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing."
Jeremiah 29:6: "that ye may be increased there, and not diminished."
Jeremiah 30:19: "of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small."
Ezekiel 29:15: "any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations."